Troubleshooting

UnicodeDecodeError on import

Since schwifty’s bank regisry contains bank names with non-ASCII characters, the corresponding JSON files are encoded in UTF-8. In some Docker container setups (and possibly elsewhere) it might occur that a UnicodeDecodeError is raised on import. This can be fixed in most cases by adjusting the locales setup to support UTF-8. See this blog post for more information. Since version 2022.04.0 this issue has been fixed, so that schwifty uses the correct encoding by default.